Armor for tires.



S. S. CHILDxS.

ARMOR FOB. TIRES.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.12, 1909.

Patented Dec. 14,1909.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL S. CHILDS, OF BERNARDSVILLE, NEW JERSEY.

Anmort ron TIRES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 12, 1909. Serial No. 482,887.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL S. CHILos, a citizen of the United States, residing at- Bernardsville, in the county of Somerset and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Armor for Tires; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to figures of reference marked thereon, which This invention 'relatesto an improved tire, and is designed to provide a tire that has a strip of armor, preferably in the form of a metallic ring, fitted to the outside of the shoe of the tire, and a metallic-ring lining the inside'of thevshoe of the tire, and screws or similar means passing through from the outer ring into the inner ring and securing them together through the shoe so that there is no longitudinal movement, neither is there any transverse movement of the rings on the shoe.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which the figure is a sectional perspective showing the parts assembled.

The improved tire consists of a shoe 1 0 which can vbe secured, in any wellnknown way, to the rim of a wheel to which the tire is attached, the preferred form of fastening being t-hrough the overturned or clenching portions 12 fitting over the ribs 13 of the shoe. Theshoe is provided, on its periphery, with a protecting strip 14, preferably of leather, over which is placed the metallic ring 15 which preferably has the flanges 16 on either side thereof, which flanges fit clown" over the strip 14 and hold it in place thereon, the flanges 16 forming a channel iron which approximately fits the raised portion 17 on the periphery of the shoe. The ring is perforated with the countersunk perforations 18 through which pass the screws'19, the heads of the screws fitting down in the perforations so as to make a flush surface.

The screwsenter a ring 20 which is placed on the inner side of the shoe and which has Patented Dec. 14, 1909.

screw-threaded perforations therein which receive the screws after they pass through and the ring to fit" between them and the inner tube 22 and thereby make a broad surface on which the inner tube 22 rests, and

there is no subsequent chafing of the parts, with itsaccompanying destruction of the inner tube. The armor for the tire prevents lateral skidding, and also serves as a protection against puncture.

Having thus described my; invention, what I claim is A tire comprising a raised tread, a metallic ring on the tread, the ring having its two edges-provided with continuous flanges to form a channel'to receive the tread, an inner metallic ring on the inside of the shoe and opposite the first ring, the outer ring having countersunk perforations, theinner ring having screw-threaded erforations, and screws havin their heads in the countersunk portions of t e outer ring and entering the screw-threaded perfora tions of the inner-ring to secure the-parts together.

In testimony, that'I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand this 10th day of March 1909.

SAMUEL S. CHILDS. Witnesses: I i

E. A. .PELL, WM. H. OAMFIELD.

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